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AA2913
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System Requirements for Virtual Servers

Hi,

I am learning VMWare and recently purchased a

HP Proliant DL360 G5 Server Quad Core E5410 2x2.33GHz 4GB 2x73GB 10K P400i 2PS Server. I am going to install ESXi 5.5 and wanted to know how many VMs can I create on this server (Just roughly). I am going to use this for my test environment at home to install Windows Server 2012 R2, XenApp 7.5, XenDesktop 7.5. So, I just wanted to know whether this configuration will be enough with the CPU, Memory and HardDisk?

Thank you in advance!

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kunaludapi
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This link should be helpful.

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/05/25/good-read-how-many-vms-on-1-esx-host/

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a_p_
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Welcome to the Community,

I'm afraid the current hardware will not allow you to setup the environment you mentioned. Firstly the G5 models do not support ESXi 5.5 (not supported doesn's necessarily mean it won't work though), and secondly the resources (4GB RAM and 2x73GB HDD) will limit the number of VM's that you will be able to run on the host.

Does the P400 controller have a BBWC (Battery backed write-cache) module? Without BBWC, the controller will operate in write-through mode which is way slower than write-back mode with BBWC.

André

AA2913
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Hi Andre,

Thanks for your input. What if I increase Memory to 16GB and Increase the HD capacity by adding another 2 x 73GB HD along with the existing configuration will that help me to at least get  a total of 5 VMs. I checked the BBWC you were talking about and it looks like it is available on this based on some of the posting in google.

DL360 G5 P400i BBWC Battery Died? - HP Enterprise Business Community

1. Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller / DNS server

2. Windows Server 2012 R2 & XenApp 7.5

3. Windows Server 2012 R2 & XenDesktop 7.5

4. Windows Server 2012 R2

5. Windows Server 2012 R2

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weinstein5
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The key comment form Andre is that the G5 is not supported under vSphere 5.5. - Now if you had a system that was supported under vSphere 5.5 and the load on your five machines is sufficiently light you should be able run the 5 VMs -

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AA2913
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That does not look like the case, cause I was just reading this which is using G5

http://www.michaelm.info/blog/?p=1312

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